The fire in the belly of the Brooklyn GOP seems to have gone out under the five-year leadership of KCRP Chairman Craig Eaton
On November 7th I posted " "Craig Eaton's Brooklyn GOP "Rebirth" is a breached delivery in 2012" with the subheading that said this about Eaton, "Republican ... Leader[ ] Craig Eaton look[s] on helplessly as [his] candidates almost all go down in bad defeats...." His post-election fence mending might be another of those pesky "Hurricane" Sandy casualties, but he's making more enemies and few new friends inside the Brooklyn GOP with his post-election possum play among the other road-kill.
Here are just a few of the grumbles about Eaton in the three weeks since election day:
Eaton's trial balloon about "Alf" Carrion's run for Mayor on the GOP line got a real and very public brushoff from one of Eaton's "old reliables" Russell Gallo;
Several of the GOP candidates, not in Eaton's home turf of Bay Ridge, complained about the lack coordination of their various campaigns with the "up ticket candidates" like Golden, Storobin and Grimm and the complete lack of anything going on for the top of the ticket;
Eaton is also being slammed by many of his "old" supporters for his usual habit of saying "Let's talk soon..." followed up by no follow up; and
An old nemesis, Peter Cipriano, has been whispering that he has the support of a key Eaton supporter, while Eaton may quickly be losing favor with that keystone of Eaton's hold on the Bay Ridge crowd ( I remember when one of Cipriano's now-strongest patrons told me that he had put Eaton at the top of the Brooklyn GOP).
I am bored and tired of doing nothing. So I will write about other people who are doing nothing.
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain.
ReplyDeleteThere's no reason to do nothing or be bored... who/what do you want to write about?
You seem like somebody who has been suffering from a lack of Republican activity and leadership. Right now I'm aware of only two Republican-affiliated organizations in Brooklyn that continue to have meetings with any regularity: Glenn Nocera's Brooklyn Young Republican Club and Joseph Hayon's Brooklyn T.E.A. Party. There's also a little bit of buzz about reorganizing the GOP County Committee in a few ADs. I wish I could mention more, but Xenophobia is part of Brooklyn GOP DNA, especially among those getting ready to strike down "The Duke" once and for all.
I think what anonymous was saying is that you are bored and tired of doing nothing, Galewyn, so you will write about others. Galewyn, why not get involved. You seem to write about Nocara a lot. Maybe it is you....
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